Every year, Google opens its developer conference with a barrage of announcements, many of which are the public debuts of recent projects the company has been working on. Take a look at these fresh announcements that were teased during the keynote address for this year’s Google I/O.
1. Google Maps
In a few cities, Google Maps has introduced a new “Immersive View for Routes” function. The new tool consolidates all the data a user could require in one location, including information on bike lanes, complicated intersections, parking, and more.
2. Magic Editor and Magic Compose
The AI-powered Google Magic Editor function can do more intricate adjustments to specific areas of the images, such as the foreground or background. It can also fill in any gaps in the image or even move the subject to get a better shot.
Additionally, a brand-new function called Magic Compose is being demonstrated today, and it can be seen being used with conversations and messages to rewrite words in various ways.
3. Palm 2
Palm 2 is Google’s newest large language model (LLM). According to Tech Crunch, “PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function as the foundation model for most of the new AI features the company is announcing today.” Additionally, PaLM 2 now offers enhanced assistance for creating and debugging code.
4. Bard
In addition to taking Bard off the waitlist and making it available in English in more than 180 countries and territories, Google is also introducing support for Japanese and Korean with the aim of adding support for 40 languages soon. Additionally, Bard’s capacity to present visuals in its responses is being improved. Additionally, Google and Adobe are collaborating to provide Bard with some creative creation tools.
5. Google Workspace
In order to make Google’s Workspace suite smarter, automatic table production (but not formula generation) in Sheets and picture creation in Slides and Meet have both been included. You may now write in the type of visualization you’re searching for, and the AI will generate it, using the new features for Slides and Meet. This specifically refers to custom backdrops for Google Meet.
6. MusicLM
Google’s latest experimental AI technology, MusicLM, converts text into music. If you’re holding a dinner party, for instance, you can just input “soulful jazz for a dinner party” and the tool will generate numerous such songs.
7. New features of Google search
Two new capabilities in Google Search help users grasp content and the context of the images they are viewing in search results. With a new “About this Image” function and new markup in the file itself, the new feature adds extra details and enables the labeling of photographs as “AI-generated.” Both of these are extensions of ongoing research, but they aim to increase openness regarding whether an “image is credible or AI-generated,” even if they are not a panacea for the greater issue of AI image misrepresentation.
8. Google Cloud- A3 supercomputer
There’s a new A3 supercomputer virtual machine in town. According to TechCrunch, “this A3 has been purpose-built to handle the considerable demands of these resource-hungry use cases,” noting that A3 is “armed with NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs and combining that with a specialized data center to derive immense computational power with high throughput and low latency, all at what they suggest is a more reasonable price point than you would typically pay for such a package.”
9. What is Universal Translator by Google?
A powerful new translation tool that Google is exploring translates videos into a different language while also matching the speaker’s lipsync to words they have never spoken. “Universal Translator,” was shown as “an example of something only recently made possible by advances in AI, but simultaneously presenting serious risks that have to be reckoned with from the start,” reported Tech Crunch.